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Mehr von Sharara (Antwort auf Anfrage eines belgischen Sportsfreunds, auf mehreren englischsprachigen Foren publiziert):

Das ist die Antwort auf Shararas Antwort, vom User Wturber:

So basically he admitted that he said something that was quite untrue.

I suggest that you look at his claims about fibers and cellulose with that misinformation in mind. Once manufacturers receive nitrocellulose to make the celluloid, it isn't fibrous at all. In fact, nitro-cellulose is typically shipped packed in liquid to minimize the volatility issues he mentions. So even it it was still fibrous, it is wet and so won't present much of an airborne issue. Further, nitrocellulose is used a wide range of products not just in celluloid. It ain't going away due to health hazards from the cellulose fibers. It is made on I think five or six continents.

Celluloid hasn't been slowly replaced worldwide due to the health hazards from fibers, it has been replaced because it is an older plastic and better or cheaper plastics have been found for most of its uses.

All it takes is a little research to discover that many manufacturers have been using cellulose fibers to replace the more dangerous asbestos fibers in many products. Further, paper is full of cellulose fibers, so is toilet paper and the tissue paper that we blow our noses with, so is your back yard. Plants are something like 30% cellulose fiber. Cotton is something like 90% cellulose fiber. Health hazard from cellulose fibers, lets get real.

Does he really expect us to believe that there is any real chance that the table tennis industry would allow table tennis balls to not be produced in the needed quantities. Get real. These are all invented reasons. Just as one ITTF official invented the claim that the making of celluloid was 80% the same as making nitro-glycerin.

Someone questioned why I considered it unimportant to ask Adham Sharara these questions. Well, there's your answer. You can't expect a straight, well informed answer from him. Better to do the research yourself because you can't trust what he says. I don't think his answers and explanation are about informing or enlightening people. I think that they are about misinformation. He made up a ban. Now he appears to be making up health hazards as a further reason. The Japanese celluloid company I asked about it confirmed that the notion that there are health hazards from cellulose fibers in the production of celluloid is imagined.

I can only guess at his motives. It is easy to discover that the things he has been saying on this topic are either untrue or are gross exaggerations.